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Survivors RESET Reduced Stress, Weight in Black Breast Cancer Survivors

by GLOOM

MHD featured image for stress management and behavioral weight loss in Black breast cancer survivors.

A 2026 single-arm Survivors RESET study enrolled 20 Black female breast cancer survivors with obesity and elevated stress, then met its enrollment, retention, and adherence feasibility benchmarks while missing its stricter satisfaction benchmark by 5 percentage points.1 Weight fell by 2.4 kg and perceived stress fell by 6.9 PSS-10 points over 4 months, but without …

Stress Internalization Predicts Memory Decline in Older Chinese Americans

by GLOOM

Editorial card showing an older Chinese American adult and a memory-decline trajectory, illustrating the PINE cohort finding that stress internalization predicts cognitive decline.

A 2025 longitudinal analysis of 1,528 older Chinese Americans by Chen et al. in the Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease says something more specific than “stress causes Alzheimer’s”: it isn’t the count of stressors that tracks memory decline — it’s a latent trait the authors call stress internalization, a bundle of high perceived stress, …